A standalone Drenai novel from David Gemmell, the master of heroic fantasy. Waylander, a feared assassin who killed the Drenai king, seeks a path to redemption when he is charged with recovering a sacred artifact — a brutal, fast-moving tale of violence, honor, and second chances.
Michael Stirling falls in love with Francesca Bridgerton at first sight — and discovers that she is about to marry his cousin. This is the darkest, most formally daring novel in the Bridgerton series.
Twenty-one meditations on pressing questions of our time — from artificial intelligence and political disillusionment to terrorism, nationalism, and the challenge of staying sane in the information age.
Archibald Isaac Ferguson is born in 1947 in Newark, New Jersey — and Auster follows four parallel versions of his life, diverging from the same starting point based on small accidents of circumstance, through the turbulent American 1960s and into the early 1970s.
From the window of a parallel train, elderly Elspeth McGillicuddy watches a man strangle a woman — then the other train is gone and no body is ever found. Only her friend Miss Marple believes her, and only Miss Marple will prove it.
Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find a missing government worker who stole documents from a state senator. What begins as a routine job draws them into Dorchester's gang wars, racial politics, and the violence that underlies South Boston's civic surface.
In the aftermath of the Red Wedding and the fall of King's Landing, power vacuums open across Westeros. Cersei Lannister consolidates control in the capital, Brienne of Tarth searches for the Stark girls, and Arya begins her training with the Faceless Men in Braavos — while the Iron Islands hold a kingsmoot that will reshape the shape of the war.
Chloe Davis grew up in the shadow of her father's crimes — he was a serial killer who murdered six girls in their Louisiana town. Twenty years later, when girls start disappearing again, Chloe must decide whether history is repeating itself.
Poppy has been taken captive and must survive with Hawke — revealed as Hawke Flynn, a Prince and not the Royal Guard she believed him to be. With truths unravelling around her, Poppy must decide who to trust in a kingdom that has kept her blind.
A wealthy financier dies of poisoning with a curious handful of rye in his jacket pocket. When two more deaths follow a pattern straight out of a nursery rhyme, Miss Marple arrives with a personal stake and a chilling theory about who is keeping the rhyme.
On a far-future moon where humanity has retreated to let nature reclaim the continent, a tea monk named Dex leaves their comfortable life seeking something they can't name. In the wilderness, they encounter Mosscap — a robot who wants to understand what humans need. A Hugo Award-winning novella of gentle philosophy.
Woolf's extended essay argues that a woman must have money and a room of her own to write fiction. Through invention, irony, and a fictional woman narrator, she examines why women have historically been excluded from literary culture — and what would change if they weren't.
Charles Wallace, now fifteen, travels through time on the back of the unicorn Gaudior to change the course of history and prevent a nuclear war, while Meg participates from a distance through kything — a form of telepathic sharing.
Julia Martin, who has been receiving a small weekly allowance from a former lover, confronts him when it stops, returns to London to see her dying mother, and drifts. Rhys's second novel is the most Chekhovian of her work — nothing is resolved, nothing is dramatized, and the sense of life passing without the protagonist being able to grasp it is achieved entirely through prose of minimal, devastating precision.
James Salter's final novel, published when he was eighty-seven. Returning from the Pacific war, Philip Bowman builds a life in the world of postwar New York book publishing, moving through love affairs, marriage, betrayal, and friendship in a luminous meditation on a single American life.
Ibi Zoboi's lyrical, National Book Award–finalist debut. Fabiola Toussaint arrives from Haiti to join her cousins in Detroit, only to have her mother detained by immigration. Alone in a harsh new world, and guided by the spirits of Haitian Vodou, she must navigate love, loyalty, and an impossible choice.
Naipaul's account of his first visit to India — the ancestral homeland he had carried as an idea throughout his Trinidadian childhood. What he found was a place of overwhelming complexity, poverty, and social denial that he could neither embrace as home nor dismiss as foreign. A devastating and controversial travel memoir.
Theodore Gumbril, a schoolmaster who invents pneumatic trousers, drifts through London's intellectual and artistic circles in the aftermath of the First World War — Huxley's darkest comedy and his most sustained portrait of 1920s London bohemia.
A British historian in post-Soviet Moscow discovers a notebook that may contain Stalin's most dangerous secret — one that leads him to the remote Arctic city of Archangel and a discovery that could reshape Russia's future.
Told through fifteen narrators, As I Lay Dying follows the Bundren family's harrowing journey across Mississippi to bury their matriarch Addie in the town of Jefferson — a journey that is simultaneously a dark comedy of rural American poverty and one of modernism's most formally radical explorations of consciousness and death.
A generation ship carrying over two thousand colonists departs Earth for Tau Ceti, seven generations and 160 years away. Told partly from the perspective of the ship's evolving artificial intelligence, Aurora is a rigorous, moving exploration of what interstellar travel would actually cost.
The sixth Expanse novel. In the aftermath of the catastrophe that ended Nemesis Games, the solar system unites against the Free Navy's radical Belter insurgency, and the crew of the Rocinante joins a sprawling effort to end a war that threatens everyone.
Grief-stricken and unable to write since his wife's sudden death, novelist Mike Noonan retreats to the couple's Maine lake house — only to find it haunted, and himself drawn into a custody battle with deep, malevolent roots. Stephen King's most romantic ghost story.
Kate Chopin's first short story collection captures life in the Louisiana Creole and Cajun communities of Natchitoches Parish, rendering race, desire, and social constraint with extraordinary sensitivity and precision.
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